Although that paled in comparison to El Capitan's user share (42.6% of all Macs) or even Mavericks (11.7%), it was larger than for successors like 2011's Lion (4%) and 2012's Mountain Lion (4%). There are still Macs running Snow Leopard: According to Web measurement vendor Net Applications, OS X 10.6 powered 4.8% of all Macs last month.
Under that scheme, Snow Leopard was 'n-3,' and thus retired, when OS X 10.9, aka Mavericks, shipped in 2013.īecause OS X upgrades are delivered through the Mac App Store, Snow Leopard required access to the mart for users to migrate from the 2009 edition to a newer version, such as 10.11, or El Capitan. Apple now patches the OS X editions designated as 'n,' 'n-1' and 'n-2,' where 'n' is the newest.
